I used boiling water to clean the bolt and then put it in my dad's (vibrating chemical bath thing, not sure what it's called. He's a jeweler). I put it back together and tested it out in another mosin. It's really hard to lift the bolt, not like gritty hard but like hammer the bolt and still won't budge hard. The only way to lift the bolt is to pull the knob in the back, back a bit before I can lift it and slide it to the rear.

I don't think I'm putting it back together wrong, I'm putting the bolt on the other mosin back the same way and it's working perfectly fine. Does anybody know what's wrong? Oh and the bolt was fine before the cleaning. Any input would be much appreciated, thanks!

Sometimes I''ll need to take a 45cal copper brush to the chamber when running a lot of milsup ammo with lacquer or "Poly" being deposited in the chamber.
I found if you don't let the rifle cool and fire a few rounds of non lacquered ball ammo will help clean it out.
-g

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The chamber of ill repute... Sounds like a girl I used to date.

Date ... or rent?

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Sounds like cousin cosmo is messing around. He's such a sticky guy when he gets put in the chamber of ill repute.

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Originally Posted by bellts

The chamber of ill repute... Sounds like a girl I used to date.

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Originally Posted by G-Man WC

Sometimes I''ll need to take a 45cal copper brush to the chamber when running a lot of milsup ammo with lacquer or "Poly" being deposited in the chamber.
I found if you don't let the rifle cool and fire a few rounds of non lacquered ball ammo will help clean it out.
-g

Date ... or rent?

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Originally Posted by LCU1670

I used an old hotgun bore brush on a drill.

Fellas, he's not shooting it, just trying to put the bolt back in. How can it possibly be a dirty chamber? And before he cleaned the bolt things were ok

Actually he's put the bolt Into a different rifle. If remember right you can also flip the firing pin 180-(may be confusing myself with mausers). So If you can take the bolt apart flip the pin so it's the way it was for the last 50 years. I'm pretty sure the pin has wings that push on the bolt head and assist the cocking.
Put the bolt into the original rifle. These parts wear together so putting a 70 year old bolt into another rifle may cause some function issues.